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Chastity Belt
Live Laugh Love
The four-piece’s dreamy fifth album is refreshingly lucid and the culmination of each member's lifelong musical evolution taking the collective whole to new heights
Paste Magazine
Jlin
Akoma
On her dazzlingly detailed new album of experimental post-footwork, the Indiana producer pushes extreme rhythmic precision so far that it begins to feel psychedelic
Pitchfork
Tyla
Tyla
The South African singer’s star-making debut is a lithe, contemporary take on pop-R&B that pulses with the log-drum heartbeat of amapiano
Pitchfork
Adrianne Lenker
Bright Future
Bright Future’s recording style mirrors the listener’s experience: as time goes on, these songs and the emotions associated with them will inevitably deepen, transmute, and attach themselves to the memory of different people
Rolling Stone
The Staves
All Now
There are times when the multi-coloured music on All Now can sound Americanized (understandable with American producer John Congleton once again at the helm) but the lyrics are written with idiosyncratic English cautious optimism that will make it relate especially to those from England, while also providing perhaps helpful insight to the uninitiated
God Is In The TV
Julia Holter
Something in the Room She Moves
An interpretive reflection of the giddy dizziness that one might feel when enjoying life’s unpredictable now
God Is In The TV
Waxahatchee
Tigers Blood
One of the few uniting and defining records of the moment, especially in the face of the recent trend of popularization of the roots music and its assimilation into the indie audience
God Is In The TV
Elbow
Audio Vertigo
The band aren’t getting any younger, but they are getting wiser and, dare I say, more fun
Sputnik Music (staff)
Adrianne Lenker
Bright Future
This is a triumphant work from an ascendant artist, and, oh yeah, also one of the finer folk albums of recent years
Sputnik Music (staff)
Jlin
Akoma
The Indiana-based footwork producer and Pulitzer Prize finalist broadens her horizons on her first album in seven years
Paste Magazine
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Glasgow Eyes
Glasgow Eyes isn’t far off being a great record, but those drops in quality aren’t just blips, they’re chasms
Beats Per Minute
Beyoncé
Cowboy Carter
There’s no question that Cowboy Carter is a landmark record. Arguably, an inevitable one. But once the dust of its audacity settles, it misses the mark of a classic
The Line Of Best Fit
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